“Nothing mattered at that moment except for our combined passion and our union, and no one else in the world existed.”

“I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul.”

“The difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.”

“Time healed all wounds, but there was nothing you could do to fix stupid.”

“The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.Maybe my questions matter.”

“I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!”

“Isn’t it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives... yet we so often forget the most important ones?”